Selected Papers from the English Institute – serie

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5 produkter

1. 

   American Renaissance Reconsidered

   Av Walter Benn Michaels, Donald E. Pease

   Häftad, 1989

   439 kr

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   The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary "classics" appeared-works "original" enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history. But the American Renaissance, Donald Pease argues in his introduction, does not belong to the nation's secular …

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   Slavery and the Literary Imagination

   Av Deborah E. McDowell, Arnold Rampersad

   Häftad, 1989

   495 kr

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   Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews-- to Sheley Anne William's "Dessa Rose" (1984). Among the contributors, Arnold Rampersad reads W.E.B. …

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   Consequences of Theory

   Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1987-88

   Av Jonathan Arac, Barbara Johnson

   Häftad, 1990

   451 kr

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   "Highly articulate, sophisticated, and tightly imbricated essays. This volume will make exceptionally fine reading for those well-acquainted with the rigorous techniques of theory."--'English Language Notes.

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   Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

   Av Ruth Bernard Yeazell

   Häftad, 1991

   451 kr

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   Six critics consider what is significantly not present-- or at least significantly well hidden-- in a provocative examination of the cultural anxieties that the nineteenth-century novel manipulates and conceals. Probing the connections between literary and sexual politics, the authors question the …

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   Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce

   Estranging the Renaissance

   Av Marjorie Garber

   Häftad, 2004

   495 kr

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   When we speak of the English Renaissance, what is it that we are naming, what are we recognizing reborn? As the essays in this latest collection from the English Institute demonstrate, our basic notions of the period have themselves been reconceived. In Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce, seven …